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I'm working in a form and for some reason the auto-fill controller language (the one that the others auto-fill from) has changed. I've gone back to other forms in the same project and added new questions, they still auto-fill from the English box.
What do I need to change to get back to the standard workflow?
The default settings of your project do not let you split mulitselect questions in case exports. This is because your case does not know which questions correspond with which case properties (because it could be multiple questions).
However, we do have a feature preview that you can enable on your project that will allow you to define how you would like to split your case property in a case export.
You can enable this setting by going to https://www.commcarehq.org/a/your_domain/settings/project/previews/ and checking the "Split multi-selects in case export" option. Then hit Update Previews.
When that is enabled you should see an extra column in your export that will allow you to select the Type. Here you select "multiselect." Then you can add your options. Example below:
The yellow warning box means that CommCare hasn't detected that your application has saved that case property before. It should still reference the case property when you deploy your application so if the property exists in the case everything will work correctly. It should also have the same behavior in all forms in your application.
Some helpful debugging tips would be:
Best Answer
I am not sure I understand. When building a form with multiple languages in CommCare, additional language boxes will auto-fill with whatever the default language for the application has been set to. You would need to manually update translations for the other boxes. This is so that if someone forgets to update a translation and deploys the application, the end user would still see some text for that particular question or translation.
Unless what you describe was a recent change, the only other area of CommCare that I know of that auto-fill translations is for User Interface Translations: https://confluence.dimagi.com/display/commcarepublic/User+Interface+Translations
As a note, you could more quickly update all translations for a form in Form Builder by handling translations outside of CommCare using the process described in this document: https://confluence.dimagi.com/display/commcarepublic/Form+Bulk+Translation